Lev Loseff[1] (
Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.[2]
Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976.[3] He earned a
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the
University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at
Dartmouth College in
Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.[1] In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.